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Yeah, so this one I think is an interesting one, Brian, because annuities are of, it's

a polarizing word out there in the financial industry.

When you even start throwing it out there, either people's ears kind of perk up, or they

immediately turn 180 and move in the opposite direction as fast as they can.

Well, I mean, there's several things going on.

We talked about this in pre-show planning.

I don't tell people when I meet new neighbors or even people if you go to like an entrepreneur

junction or something like that, they say, what do you do for a living?

I always pause, because I never know what to say, because when you tell somebody you're

a financial planner, they, you know, you're not going to be able to do that.

They naturally social distance from you, because they assume it's a matter of time before

you either pitch them a life insurance policy, an annuity.

And that's so unfortunate to me that that's become synonymous with what financial planners

use in their toolbox.

So we want to kind of explain, because we've had, here's what's going on, though, we've

gone through a weird time.

I mean, because we've had stock markets that have crashed, we've had all of us go under

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